Re: [boost] Getting Started Testing with Linux virtual machine on Windows host

On 17 December 2013 07:08, Andrey Semashev wrote:

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Cox, Michael wrote:

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Recommend changing:

sudo mv b2 /usr/bin

to

sudo mv b2 /usr/local/bin

/usr/bin is managed by package managers. You shouldn't normally put anything there since (a) it can be overwritten with the next package update and (b) you don't see what is custom-built and what is installed with packages (this comes in the way when upgrading the system).

It's probably better to use 'sudo ./b2 install --prefix=/usr/local' to install the whole thing for standalone use.

/usr/local/bin is better in this sense, but still I prefer not to put anything there anyway. I put my custom binaries to ~/bin. I'm on Kubuntu though, not sure if Fedora supports ~/bin.

I do something similar, but in this case it's a virtual machine, so management of '/usr/local' is less of a concern.